Rovian Reich dismantles social contract, health and safety oversight, including Pure Food

Okay, we know that the Rovians and their ultra-right think tankers have been trying to dismantle democracy, worker protections, Medicare, Social Security, environmental protection and just about every other domestic policy enacted during the 20th century in response to the excesses of the robber barons, the depression, and the preference of the rich to enrich themselves further at everybody else's expense like the emperors of old. They have reached the pinnacle of achievement under the Bushco junta by squelching a free media, stealing elections, stomping on individual rights, and privatizing even their illegal wars with obscene profits to shadow outfits like Blackwater and Hallibuton. But their greatest success has been achieved by installing incompetents in every federal oversight agency so that disasters like Katrina help to worsen the plight of those who might vote against them.
We know all this. But are we prepared for them to kill us by poisoning our food supply? After all, everybody has to eat, not just welfare queens and labor union members.
In the bad old days, 100 or so years ago, "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair exposed lots of bad behavior in the Chicago meat-packing industry. True recalls reading about this in elementary school and being very shocked that rats, sawdust, cigarette butts and other unmentionables got stuffed into sausages.
But I don't recall reading that people were dying of E. coli in their spinach or peanut butter back in those utterly unregulated times. No, we can thank the Reich for that. They have gutted the Food and Drug Administration so severely that there is no way they can protect the food supply, even when they know (as they did in both recent cases) that there are serious problems. 101 years later, the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 is slated to go the way of the horse-and-buggy. That will be one of the high spots of the "Bush Legacy."
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